LAS VEGAS – Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (9-1 MMA, 4-1 SF) has never been one to hold back when it comes to expressing his opinion, and Saturday night was no different.

Oh, and the gloves really came off when it came to referee Kim Winslow.

“I’m going to put it like this: The commission, they need to do something with [Winslow],” Lawal said. “Let her take a fight or something and give her a bad ref.”

Lawal’s anger came from Winslow’s seemingly slow stoppage of his fight. In the second round, Lawal took Larkin to the floor and pummeled him with ground-and-pound blows. Winslow finally stepped in after more than a dozen big punches that seemed to bring Larkin in and out of consciousness.

Lawal believed the delay in halting the bout was not only ridiculous but also in stark contrast to the pre-fight instructions he was given.

“She said backstage, ‘If I hear ‘Ow’ or ‘Ouch’ or ‘Ooh,’ I’m going to stop the fight,'” Lawal explained. “Man, this dude was cussing. I hit him, and he’s like, ‘Oh, [expletive].’ I was like, ‘Uh, ref?’

“I looked at her, so I kept on hitting him. I was like, ‘Man, she needs to stop this thing.’ I heard people in the crowd yelling, ‘Stop it!’ Then she jumps in all late.”

Lawal said Winslow explained post-fight that her call was based on a desire to give Larkin every possible chance to recover and that “If it takes for him to be asleep, that’s what it is.”

Lawal believes that’s an ill-informed explanation.

“She’s never taken a punch before, so it’s easy for her to say that,” Lawal said.

Lawal cited a previous Winslow outing as proof that the official is sometimes slow to intervene in one-sided matchups. Citing a June 2010 bout in which then-Strikeforce female champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos was mercilessly beating on a defenseless Jan Finney, Lawal said he thinks Winslow may need to take on a different role in the cage to gain a better understanding of what she’s watching.

“Let [Winslow] fight ‘Cyborg,’ and let’s do a late stoppage with her,” Lawal said. “I watched her almost get Jan Finney killed by ‘Cyborg.’ I think maybe the tables need to be turned. Put me in there as a ref, and I’ll just do a terrible job like her.”

However, Winslow wasn’t the only one to come under fire at the evening’s post-event press conference. With the win, Lawal would seem to be a likely candidate to fight for Strikeforce’s currently vacant light heavyweight title. But who he’ll face is currently unknown.

When a rematch with Mousasi (a man Lawal previously said sounds like muppet Kermit the Frog when he speaks) was proposed, Lawal took direct aim.

“He’s the most boring person in MMA,” Lawal said. “If they want me to beat Mousasi up – my bad, ‘Kermit’ up – I’ll do it. But he’s just so boring, I hate thinking about him.

“I would beat him up, but the dude’s boring. Let’s join my bandwagon, and let’s boycott Gegard. How about that?”

The remark earned laughs from much of the gathered media, but the jokes continued to flow when Lawal was asked if he hopes for a bout with former UFC champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, a man with whom “King Mo” has openly quarreled in the past.

“Why you got bring up that bum’s name?” Lawal asked. “If [Jackson] wants to come to Strikeforce and get beat, he can. To me, he needs to stick to acting and doing movies. To me in my mind and in my eyes, he don’t got it no more.

“He can hit me up on Twitter and talk trash, trying get me off my game, but we all know the truth. Man, he’s an actor – a sub-par actor. He should’ve got ‘The B-Team,’ not ‘The A-Team.'”

Lawal, who sat next to fellow American Kickboxing Academy product Luke Rockhold (and told reporters to feel free to refer to the due as “Cookie and Cream”), remained in good spirits throughout the post-fight event, and with good reason. With the win over Larkin, Lawal is now 4-1 under the Strikeforce banner and may soon get a rematch with the only man to ever beat him, Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante.

Lawal refused to speculate on where he’ll go next, but the man who once referred to Strikeforce as a dying cancer patient now seems more comfortable under the promotion’s banner.

“It’s like this: I’m in Strikeforce,” Lawal said. “Fans that are asking about the UFC, they’re stupid, man. I’m in Strikeforce. What can we say about the UFC?

“I’m in Strikeforce. The UFC has their own thing. Strikeforce has their own thing. I can’t be concerned with what they’re saying. I just got to worry about my fights in Strikeforce.”

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